With the modern lifestyle, it is a real luxury to be able to sit down for a moment and do some writing. Time is very precious for me at the moment with my City & Guilds course occupying the majority of my time. I rarely have time to do other things after writing reports of […]
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I am a semi-seasonal vegetable grower, meaning I am very active in spring, summer and autumn, but half resting during the winter period – one reason being I do not have a polytunnel or (heated) greenhouse on my Patch. Therefore, I work twice as hard during the warmer months to grow as much as I […]
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It has been quite a while since my last blog update. Sorry guys, it has been quite manic here for the last few weeks and as the sky turns greyer and darker, I switch on my hibernation mode to stay indoors, knitting and sewing. As the weather was quite mild and dry yesterday morning (with […]
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I love and at the same time I also hate this time of the year. It is wet (very wet at the moment), windy and dull. This is the perfect recipe for keeping me inside. I am glad I have a lot of indoor hobbies so I never get bored. However, this also means my […]
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The last few nights have been quite chilly. The temperature dipped down to a single figure. In fact, it was so cold that I didn’t want to leave the bed this morning… With the cold weather quickly approaching, I have been busy tending to the Patch, as well as getting some young seedlings into their final position […]
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It has been a while since I updated my blog. I went on a road trip with Andrew and my father to Bordeaux (Saint-Emilion more precisely) a couple of weeks ago…and yes, we arrived home with a boot full of wine. One thing I have found impossible to shake off in my sugar free […]
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Those of you who are following me on Facebook or Twitter might have seen some pictures of Andrew and me attending a cooking day at Daylesford near Kingham in Gloucestershire last Saturday. We had a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of new skills from the chef, James. I am surprised how few people know of Daylesford. I love Daylesford, […]
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If you are one of our regular readers, I am sure you know I am an eco-friendly and sustainability conscious geek! When I call myself an eco-friendly geek, I don’t mean recycling plastic bottles and aluminium cans only. I am talking about recycling food and kitchen waste…and yes(!), some one has to do the dirty […]
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We have had a couple of weeks of gorgeous weather and I have been busy getting my vegetable patch filled up with seedlings. Fortunately (or unfortunately to some), the weather is a little too wet to work outside this morning, so I decided to write about planting vegetables instead of getting wet. When I saw […]
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To me, the start of British Summer Time signifies Spring has arrived and Summer is not far away! There’s a lot going on in both flower and vegetable gardens and I am sure all the fellow gardeners out there are busy sowing or carrying out last minute tidying up. Although the ground starts to warm […]
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